The sintering and grain growth behaviour of ceramic-carbon nanotube nanocomposites

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 947-952

  Inam, Fawad ^a   Yan, Haixue ^a   Peijs, Ton ^a   Reece, Michael J ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A. Carbon nanotubes; A. Ceramics; A. Nanocomposites; E. Powder processing; E. Sintering

Indexed keywords

A. CARBON NANOTUBES; ABNORMAL GRAIN GROWTH; CARBON BLACK NANOCOMPOSITE; E. POWDER PROCESSING; E. SINTERING; ENTANGLED NETWORKS; FUNCTIONALLY GRADIENT; GRAIN SIZE REFINEMENT; LAMINATE STRUCTURES; LARGE-GRAIN; POWDER PROCESSING; SINTERING AID; SINTERING TEMPERATURES;

CARBON BLACK; CARBON NANOTUBES; CERAMIC MATERIALS; GRAIN REFINEMENT; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; NANOCOMPOSITES; SINTERED ALUMINA; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING;

GRAIN GROWTH;

CARBON; CERAMICS; LAMINATE; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOTUBE; POWDER; SINTERING;

EID: 77950926662     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2010.02.010     Document Type: Article

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